Description: Canterbury Tales, Paperback by Chaucer, Geoffrey; Ackroyd, Peter (RTL); Bantock, Nick (ILT), ISBN 0143106171, ISBN-13 9780143106173, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "A romp for the ages" (Vanity Fair)—now with a graphic cover and deluxe packaging
Renowned novelist, historian, and biographer Peter Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents it in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to readers while preserving the spirit of the original. A mirror for medieval society, The Canterbury Tales concerns a motley group of pilgrims who meet in a London inn on their way to Canterbury and agree to take part in a storytelling competition. Ackroyds contemporary prose emphasizes the humanity of these characters-as well as explicitly rendering their bawdy humor-yet still masterfully evokes the euphonies and harmonies of Chaucers verse.
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Book Title: Canterbury Tales : a Retelling by Peter Ackroyd (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Item Length: 8.4in.
Item Height: 1.1in.
Item Width: 5.7in.
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Format: United Kingdom-B Format Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Classics, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2010
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 17.5 Oz
Number of Pages: 464 Pages
